Daniel_Cheung
10-19-2009, 11:58 AM
Catholic Diocese files for Chapter 11
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091019/us_nm/us_catholicdioceseofwilmington
Delaware's Catholic Diocese of Wilmington Inc filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, court documents showed on Sunday, in the face of more than 140 claims filed by people who said they were victims of sexual abuse by the diocese's priests.
The diocese became the seventh in the United States to seek bankruptcy protection and its filing came one day before the scheduled start of a civil trial against a defrocked priest.
"This is a painful decision, one that I had hoped and prayed I would never have to make," Wilmington Bishop W. Francis Malooly said in a statement on the diocese website. "However ... I believe we have no other choice and that filing for Chapter 11 offers the best opportunity, given finite resources, to provide the fairest possible treatment of all victims of sexual abuse by priests of our diocese."...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091019/us_nm/us_catholicdioceseofwilmington
Delaware's Catholic Diocese of Wilmington Inc filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, court documents showed on Sunday, in the face of more than 140 claims filed by people who said they were victims of sexual abuse by the diocese's priests.
The diocese became the seventh in the United States to seek bankruptcy protection and its filing came one day before the scheduled start of a civil trial against a defrocked priest.
"This is a painful decision, one that I had hoped and prayed I would never have to make," Wilmington Bishop W. Francis Malooly said in a statement on the diocese website. "However ... I believe we have no other choice and that filing for Chapter 11 offers the best opportunity, given finite resources, to provide the fairest possible treatment of all victims of sexual abuse by priests of our diocese."...